Jiang presents slavery as a historical energy substitute: when cheap oil is unavailable, societies may again use enslaved human beings to run the economy.
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Cheap OIL
Jiang presents slavery as a historical energy substitute: when cheap oil is unavailable, societies may again use enslaved human beings to run the economy.
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"...used human beings, right? You can no longer have access to cheap oil. What you do is, you enslave. You enslave people. And that's..."
"...these roads, okay? Because China was able to import all this cheap oil from the GCC. And then the GCC would take this money,..."
"...humans were the cheap energy. If you don't have access to cheap oil, well, then you're gonna enslave human beings, all right? This is..."
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